October 30-31, 10am-2pm Mapping is an effective tool for reconstructing the past, which reveals the spatial relationships that stimulated cultural, social and political change over time. In this workshop, we will introduce digital tools and workflows for visualizing and interpreting historical data. We will cover the basics of QGIS, web mapping with Leaflet, georeferencing historical … Continue reading Workshop: Mapping History, Harvard University
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University seeks to appoint up to four professors who study race, ethnicity and/or migration with focus on Asian American, Latinx, and/or Islam in America Studies. We seek candidates who work in one or more of these areas or who do comparative work across them. These positions may … Continue reading Call for Applications: Professors of Asian American, Latinx, and/or Islam in America Studies, Harvard University
Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world. Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. A fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from … Continue reading Call for Applications: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies brings experts from an array of fields within the field of Islamic studies to Harvard. These seminars are meant to bolster intellectual engagement within the field of Islamic studies more broadly on the Harvard campus, and to allow students to engage with cutting-edge insights and scholarship on Islam … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Race, Religion, and Revolution in Islamic West Africa since 1770
Mahindra Humanities Center, Persian and Persianate Studies: "From Shah Jahan to Nadir Shah: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi" Abhishek Kaicker is a historian of South Asia in the department of History UC Berkeley and currently a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard. His primary scholarly interests lie in questions of … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi
Friday, 3 May 2019 The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature invite contributions from Harvard College students of papers (fifteen to twenty minutes) in length in any discipline, dealing with any medieval or early modern topic. We particularly welcome papers that push against traditional boundaries in medieval … Continue reading Call for Papers: First Harvard Undergraduate Medieval and Early Modern Symposium
"Al-Ghazālīand the Epistemology of Legal Analogy (Qiyās): How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law" By Felicitas Opwis, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University Location: William James, Room 1550
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies brings experts from an array of fields within the field of Islamic studies to Harvard. These seminars are meant to bolster intellectual engagement within the field of Islamic studies more broadly on the Harvard campus, and to allow students to engage with cutting-edge insights and scholarship on Islam … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law
“A Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia: Revisiting Sayrāmī's Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī" — Eric Schluessel (PhD ’16), Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Politics, University of Montana Room S250, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/pages/iaas-lecture-series
